Ethnicity and Medical Care

by Alan Harwood

Ethnicity and Medical Care equips health professionals with the ethnographic data they need to deliver better health care within American communities of urban blacks, Chinese, Haitians, Italians, Mexicans, Navajos, and Puerto Ricans. Each chapter, dealing in turn with one of these seven American subcultures, reviews the available demographic and epidemiological data and examines sociocultural influences on each major phase of illness. Topics range...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674268652
• ISBN13: 9780674268654
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"